Re: [boost] [Concept Check] ContiguousIterator

Subject: Re: [boost] [Concept Check] ContiguousIterator
From: Joel Falcou (joel.falcou_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-10-07 10:21:15

On 07/10/10 15:58, David Abrahams wrote:
> At Thu, 07 Oct 2010 13:23:14 +0100,
> Mathias Gaunard wrote:
>>
>> On 07/10/10 13:13, Mathias Gaunard wrote:
>>> On 05/10/10 20:45, joel falcou wrote:
>>>> Using BCC, s there any way to refine RandomAccessIterator so the cocnept
>>>> captures the fact that the address of two consecutive value iterated over
>>>> are contiguous in memory ?
>>>>
>>>> I can't get any proper expression to check for this in a proper way.
>>>
>>> Iterators will need to register nominally to the concept. Specialize it
>>> for pointers and any kind of normal vector-like iterator (too bad we
>>> don't have a standardized name for that).
>>>
>>> You may want to make sure it works correctly with iterator_adaptor as well.
>>
>> __gnu_cxx::__normal_iterator will forward the iterator_category from
>> pointers already, so it doesn't need special care.
>
> You could make the iterator category tag a class derived from
> random_access_iterator_tag.  That would be a good protocol for new
> iterators, anyway.  You'll need to specialize in order to retrofit
> this for existing iterator types.
>

Ok so I wasn't that much braindead. I'll do this then ;)
Thanks for the head up